a1.2xlarge vs t4g.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlarget4g.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments.

a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor
1 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
Websites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturen/aarm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core01
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarget4g.2xlarge, t4g.large, t4g.medium, t4g.micro, t4g.nano, t4g.small, t4g.xlarge
RDSdb.t4g.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenoyes
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 2780 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth695 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput86.875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance4000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance15700 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2780 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput347.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 5 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesno
Max Interfaces4
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.37x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
t4g.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.1792
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.20400.1792
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20400.2688
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.3008
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.3053
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.3053
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.3072
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.3072
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.3091
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.3110
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.3136
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.3136
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.3200
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23040.2688
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.3213
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.3264
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.3328
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.3379
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.3392
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.3392
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.3392
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.3392
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.3456
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.3469
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23280.2752
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.3482
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.3565
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.3712
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a0.4288
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23520.2822
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25680.2944
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26640.2944
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.2944
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.2944
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.3008
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.2040n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20400.2688
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